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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1472100, member: 4381&quot;]Looking at the copper-nickle example, the best one we own once was unfortunately cleaned, like many&nbsp; coins of this period, but it has Mint State details. <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_obverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_obverse.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_obverse_trim.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here you can see that the tail feathers are very sharp and defined,&nbsp; meaning it is an excellent strike, and that the feathers on the&nbsp; breast of the coin are also clear with no evidence of wear.&nbsp; The&nbsp; realistic aeronomic musculature of the wing is visiable and present, a breath taking design and example, in my&nbsp; opinion</p><p>&nbsp; The Wreath on the backside is also a really nice design, not like the simple wheat stacks most people are familiar with in the old Lincoln Cents.&nbsp; The vareity of fruits, nuts and leaves recall a time when it was America&#039;s argiculture which drove the economy, nicely layed out and craved into the brass. <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_reverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_reverse.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>&nbsp; Cleaned or not, it is the relief of the reverse wreath that makes this coin special with the details intact of the nuts, corn, and oak leafs.&nbsp; The nice brown tone makes one wonder why anyone&nbsp; would attempt to clean such a coin.&nbsp; The strike is exception for the year, with both sides being&nbsp; complete, even in the feathering of the obverse breast and the reverse corn stalks.&nbsp; Here is a&nbsp; <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_reverse.tif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_reverse.tif" rel="nofollow">detailed tif image of the reverse</a> and this one is of the <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_obverse.tif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/flying_eagle_1857_cleaned_ANA_obverse.tif" rel="nofollow">Obverse</a>, both in the slab. The coin glows softly in the light[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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